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CBN Governor Should Work for Real People – By Anthony A. Kila

Posted by admin Anthony A. Kila, CBN (Central Bank of Nigeria), Columnists, NNP Columnists Monday, May 16th, 2011

By Anthony A. Kila, London, UK – May 16, 2011 – Even when joyful, it is always advisable to keep one’s eyes open. The recent inclusion of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Lamido Sanusi, on the celebrated list of the 100 most influential people in world has filled many of us with pride […]

41 years enough to heal wounds of civil war- Gowon

Posted by admin Latest Politics, Presidency, Yakubu Gowon (1966-75) Monday, May 16th, 2011

General Yakubu Dan-Yumma Gowon (Jack), GCFR, Nigeria’s former Military Head of State (1966 – 1975) is seldom available. Not in the sense of foreign trips; he is enmeshed in innumerable engagements in the good interest of the nation. At 76, the former ruler is often oblivious of the natural call for the required rest an […]

Police to pay N100m damages over shooting incident

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police Sunday, May 15th, 2011

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, weekend, affirmed its judgment for the award of N100 million and N10,000 as damages in favour of citizens Nnamdi Anyaogu and Felix Anyaogu, respectively, against the Nigerian Police Force for their illegal shooting and abandonment at Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH. Trial judge in the matter, Justice […]

Don’t scrap, review NYSC – Gowon, Atiku

Posted by admin Headlines, NYSC (National Youth Service Corp), Prof. Emmanuel Omoh Esiemokhai Sunday, May 15th, 2011

FORMER Military Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (rtd), who established the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, in 1973 and former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, have opposed calls for scrapping of the NYSC because of incessant killing of corps members especially in northern parts of the country during recurring ethno-religious and political crises. Noting […]

Group faults moves to establish US military base in Nigeria

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Armed Forces, Headlines Sunday, May 15th, 2011

A non-governmental organisation has warned the Federal Government against allowing the establishment of a United States, US, military base in Nigeria. Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC in a statement, yesterday, charged the government not to agree to the establishment of a US military base in the country, saying that it will jeopardise the country’s fragile security. […]

EFCC moves against Daniel, Akala, 7 others

Posted by admin EFCC Politics, Governors, Top Stories Sunday, May 15th, 2011

NINE outgoing state governors across the country who have enjoyed immunity for the past four or eight years may soon be guests of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, as their tenures expire on May 29. Sources at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, told Vanguard, weekend, that the anti-graft agency was going […]

‘She Terminated My Appointment Because I Refused to Sleep in Her Bedroom’

Posted by admin Headlines Sunday, May 15th, 2011

Dear Relationship Angel, I’m Victor. Last year, I got a job as a personal assistant in a small company in Lagos. The Managing Director is largely based in the U.S. but comes to Nigeria once or twice a year, that is, at Christmas and Easter. So, most of the time, his wife runs the company. […]

Release Akingbola Forthwith, Court Orders EFCC

Posted by admin EFCC Politics, Judiciary Sunday, May 15th, 2011

AS the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) plans to re-arraign the former Managing Director of Intercontinental Bank Plc, Dr. Erastus Akingbola at a Lagos High Court tomorrow on charges similar to those he has been facing before a Federal High Court, Lagos, Justice Charles Archibong of the Federal High Court, acting on the […]

Nigeria, U.S. to promote learning among children

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Education, Headlines Sunday, May 15th, 2011

UNITED States Ambassador to Nigeria, Terence McCulley, Education Minister, Prof. Ruqayyatu Rufa’i, and USAID/Nigeria Mission Director, Ray Kirkland are expected at the launch of Nigerian adaptation of Sesame Street, a children television series which focuses on literacy, mathematics and health education today at the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) Headquarters in Abuja McCulley who welcomed the […]

Why Obama Approved Transfer of Warship to Nigeria

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Headlines Sunday, May 15th, 2011

MORE details are emerging regarding the transfer of ownership to Nigeria of a veteran US warship formerly called Chase, now renamed NNS Thunder. President Barack Obama had approved granting of the ship to Nigeria way back in January at the peak of the Ivorien presidential election crisis. According to diplomatic and military sources from Nigeria and […]